GeForce GTX 780 vs Radeon HD 7850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +136%

4156

Radeon HD 7850

1761

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 780 +113%

2795

Radeon HD 7850

1312

GeForce GTX 780

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 700

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

2304

Shading Units

1024

192

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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